GRU's New Hacking Team
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•Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
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Russia 's military intelligence agency, the GRU , has long had a reputation as one of the world's most aggressive practitioners of sabotage, assassination, and cyber warfare.
A broad group of Western government agencies from countries including the US , the UK , Ukraine , Australia , Canada , and five European countries on Thursday revealed that a hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard , Bleeding Bear , or Greyscale is in fact part of GRU's Unit 29155 .
The unit has been tied in the past, for instance, to the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal with the Novichok nerve agent in the UK .
The 29155 hacking group is composed of just 10 or so individuals, all of whom are relatively young GRU officers.
The small team has also partnered with Russian cybercriminal hackers in some cases, officials say.
Cadet Blizzard appears to have been housed in its own building, separate from the rest of the GRU.
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